anime globalization will never end

Agreed.


Disagreed. If we're going to play the "give money/deny money" game, then we should give money to the specific anime that "stay focused on the Japanese market" and deny money from "globalized" anime. Instead of denying money to every single anime.

I understand this is difficult in the age of streaming, but these streaming platforms do collect watch data. So in a less direct way, they will notice if people choose certain shows and avoid others, which can have an effect on what kind of anime they pick up in the future.

DEI initiatives are dying off pretty rapidly in the West. People proved they want Japanese media to be Japanese. Like, when Tifa got censored in FF7 the Japanese fanbase agreed with the Western anti-censorship crowd. Europe's been mocking American media for years now.

In addition, Stellar Blade was a thing last year. EVE is not just sexy, but outrageously sexy. Supermodel-level sexy (and yes, she was actually modelled by a Korean supermodel). The success of Stellar Blade and the fallout it caused on social media proved that the whole third-wave feminist rhetoric is completely unsustainable.

Not long after the Stellar Blade ordeal Assassins' Creed Shadows caused national outrage in Japan thanks to its' forced DEI nonsense (as well as the tasteless bombed Torii figure), so much so the Japanese politicians got involved. That's a rare feat for a Western video game. This proves that Japan is well aware that not only does DEI stifle creativity, it also stifles multiculturalism.

It's not an issue because anime will be produced for both the Japanese and the global market.

@Zarutaku you mean their will be anime produce for japan market only and other anime produce for the global market instead? or you mean future anime will be produce for both japanese market and global market? because different cultures like lolicon culture is exclusive to japanese market

A most likely white guy complaining about "globalization" in Japanese animation has to be the dumbest shit I have ever seen. Yeah no shit its globalized, its an internationally traded product. By asking for it not to be "globalized" you are asking for it to be solely sold to Japanese audiences so you wouldn't be able to see it lmao.

@LSSJ_Gaming well im hearing and reading about this old fans wanting to bring back the golden days of fansubbing from the 1990s and early 2000s when fansubbers have the work position of raw cappers that directly record raw videos from japanese tv

They will stop translating anime if this happens, and you'll be left with nothing to watch.

@deg
The days back when lots of anime were never translated and the books they were based on weren't translated either.

But anime pirates told me Japanese anime producers only care about sales in Japan and watching anime legally makes no difference since streaming services only pay "pennies" to the creators...

Now I'm super confused when I hear that the overseas market has surpassed the domestic market.

A most likely white guy complaining about "globalization" in Japanese animation has to be the dumbest shit I have ever seen. Yeah no shit its globalized, its an internationally traded product. By asking for it not to be "globalized" you are asking for it to be solely sold to Japanese audiences so you wouldn't be able to see it lmao.

@LSSJ_Gaming I love how nice Deg is because he doesnt even respond to your racebaiting

Seems like poor justification to pirate anime. Where do you think a lot of your precious subs come from? These pirate threads are getting quite old.

I don't know that there's more paying customers than pirates, but there certainly are more non-Japanese people than Japanese people. And since the Japanese market is built on an aging/shrinking population, overseas markets are only going to become more and more important. We've already seen them overtake the Japanese market in revenues.

Also, since pirate sites get their translations from legal ones, you can't really "boycott" international streaming unless you only watch older anime from the pre-streaming era, or content that didn't get same-day legal simulcasts.